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  • The reaction rate is generally highest at the beginning of a reaction, when the concentration of the substances reacting is highest.
  • Reaction rate increases when temperature increases, when concentration increases, and when solid reactants have more surface area available (e.g., when the reactants are in smaller pieces).
  • Catalysts are chemicals that raise reaction rates without being consumed in the reaction.

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Wilhelm Ostwald.
Wilhelm Ostwald
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Pierre-Eugène-Marcellin Berthelot, engraving by Philippe-Auguste Cattelain.
Pierre-Eugène-Marcellin Berthelot
French chemist
Jacobus Henricus van't Hoff, detail of an oil painting by Helene Büchmann.
Jacobus Henricus van ’t Hoff
Dutch chemist
Sir George Porter, Baron Porter of Luddenham
British chemist
Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood
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Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov
Russian chemist
Ronald George Wreyford Norrish
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Manfred Eigen
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